All ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø articles in 26 November 2010 – Page 4
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Balfour eyes new-build social housing after £7m Rok buy
Deal for collapsed firm’s work comes as administrator confirms Mears snapped up key Bristol contracts
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Gleeson snaps up more land as house sales soar 47%
Sales at Gleeson have risen by almost half since July and private completions have grown by more than a quarter since the same time last year, the housebuilder said in an interim statement to the City last Friday
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HCA boss: social housing funds on ice till 2012
There will be almost no new funding for social housing for 18 months, the new chief executive of the Homes and Communities Agency has admitted in her first major interview.
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Cost update: Q3 2010
The quarterly analysis of construction costs and prices shows the upward trend of the last quarter continuing and wages pushing up. Peter Fordham of Davis Langdon, an Aecom company, reports
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Kier buys PV firm for £2.4m
Kier has snapped up green energy specialist contractor Beco in a deal worth £2.4m
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Bovis wins £150m Regent’s Place deal from British Land
Bovis Lend Lease has beaten off competition from Mace and Sir Robert McAlpine to win a £150m deal to build the second phase of British Land’s Regent’s Place scheme in London.
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Rok's collapse threatens bid for £130m housing scheme
A £130m housing PFI scheme in Oldham could be derailed following the Rok collapse.
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Mitie acquisitions boost half-year profit by 12%
Company posts strong results despite plans to close engineering services in Scotland and South-west
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Taylor Wimpey secures £100m as part of refinancing deal
Taylor Wimpey has secured £100m from the fund management arm of the Prudential, which moves it closer to the £350m it needs to raise to complete a refinancing deal announced last week
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Dunster plans zero-carbon homes built out of straw
Eco-housing guru claims compressed straw boards knock £20,000 off price of code level 6 home
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Combined heat and power
Talbotts has launched the BG25 biomass combined heat and power unit. The unit has been developed in conjunction with the bio-energy team at Harper Adams University College, which has expertise in both biomass and anaerobic digestion.It uses waste biomass in the form of wood chips or pellets to generate consistent ...
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Structural insulating blocks
ThermoPlan structural insulating blocks from Natural ºÚ¶´ÉçÇø Technologies have been used to build a curving 8.5m-tall supporting wall on the north facing elevation of a private house development in Charlbury, near Oxford.ThermoPlan uses a thin bed mortar, just 1mm thick, to secure rows of blocks, with interlocking dry vertical joints ...
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Rok boss tells redundant workers to 'Keep on Roking'
Garvis Snook sends parting email to workers of collapsed workers
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Speedy Hire losses almost double
Firm blames weak first half and ’corporate failures’ for a half-year pre-tax loss of £13.8m
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Hyder boosts profit after cutting 7% of workforce
Consultant engineer reports 66% jump in profit after revealing more job losses
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Tottenham and West Ham vie for Olympic Stadium
North London football clubs go head to head for future of stadium
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First Impressions: Atelier KAAMA's Prague residential building
Two architecture students comment on the unusual scheme featuring different shades of copper cladding
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Battersea Power Station gets green light
Proposed scheme includes £200m for a two station extension of the Northern Line from Kennington
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Halcrow wins French nuclear contract
Engineer to help project manage construction of nuclear fusion reactor in southern France